adriano celentano

ooh, thanks! been playing "prisencolinensinainciusol" out as much as possible, though sadly without the dance scene in the video being replicated. a friend's mother has v.fond memories of him in his pop idol days in italy.

i liked him when i only knew the 70s disco stuff, thought of him sort of as an italian serge gainsbourg

but i am LOVING the earlier stuff. that whole thuggish, caged animal thing he's got going on during "canzone" (italian for "song", right?) ... it's like an early prototype of iggy pop cirac "the idiot" or something?

i downloaded a couple of celentano albums. unfortunately only a few good tracks :(

here's what i wrote on the battisti thread

anyone know anything about Adriano Celentano? i think it was one of the guys in the band Studio saying he dug battisti and celentano, so it put me on the search. i've only heard bits here and there. seems he started out as an elvis inspired rocker and is still putting out music. i'm not sure if he ever got too avant, but i definitely want to hear his 70s stuff. i accidentally downloaded Joan Lui which was mislabeled as from 75, but it's actually from 85. kinda reminds me of battisti's stuff from around the same period. slightly electro pop w/great italian vocals.
this is one of the best things i've heard from him so far (excellent video to boot)
Prisencolinesunaciusol
http://youtube.com/watch?v=9Ger_CT_zvQ
-- jaxon, Thursday, January 3, 2008 11:46 PM (2 months ago) Bookmark Link

new italian crush: friend of battisti's - Adriano Pappalardo. the record i have sounds like italian roxy music. here are 2 tracks from it.

http://robotsinheat.com/trax/RisalendoLaSagola.mp3
http://robotsinheat.com/chim/DueNelBlu.mp3

i have prisen and disc jockey, what else should i look for?

do you like those? i have the soundtrack to Yuppi Du and it's mostly instrumental and has one really good track

Alex Chilton did a cover of his I Ribelle (sp?)
I have a scratched to fuck comp. of his with one great song 'Ciao Ragazzi'

i can't get over the awesomeness of "canzone"

Chi Non Lavora Non Fa L'Amore

^^ good times

azzuro

damn it's like david byrne and stallone had a kid

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f0BWkp3BOc&feature=related

^^ attica meets arkham

btw apparently his prisencolinensinaincusol costar had a career too??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdN0SpHp_Wo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTSTMWeMLU

^^ he's burning up ... check out the dangerous groin-wrecking moves @ 2:45

No mention so far of Mike 'Runaround' Read's English language cover of Prisencolinensinainciusol?

The Celentano version is one of my fathers fave records. It's always good when it comes on in a pizza place when we're together.

The sudden popularity of this record makes me v happy.

Yet again, ahem.

This dude is my dad's favourite singer ever, he's got something like 50 of his albums at home.

"btw apparently his prisencolinensinaincusol costar had a career too??"

she's ultra-famous here in Italy and in Spain too, I think.

ps for Jaxon: Celentano's albums are always mixed bags, go instead for a good compilation. Many of his 60's and 70's singles were very good.

struck me the other night that bits of "Prisen..." sound a bit like mark e smith. just a little tho.

other way round morelike

The Mike Reid version is like Shaun Ryder's secret Cockney funny uncle.

well yeah, other way around.

greg wilson has made an edit ... (via djh here and here)

found the "Tutto Adriano 1958-1964" comp in Italy a month ago, covering his humble beginnings of ballroom-ish r'n'r doo-woppings, with a standout track & definite search in "La Mezza Luna"

^^^spits fire on this one

Love this one.

Gah, better vid, performance:

^^ Francoise Hardy did that song as well - i think it was an italian eurovision song or something?

All I knew was that he wrote it about the street he was born on in Milan. Hadn't heard the Hardy version until youtubing it a minute ago.

Italian wikipedia suggests it was for the San Remo festival in 1966.

sounds better in french!

DENIED! I love Celentano's voice when it goes low to high.

http://ichlugebullets.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/adriano_celentano04.jpg

The man is abnormally tan.

http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=632214

this song is sung in a new language that nobody will comprehend / understand it has only one significance / universal love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hS1A4l-eTFU

"Stai Lontana da me" -- Greatest Celentano video, and fantastic song

I had no idea Prisencolinensinainciusol was popular around here, one of my favorite songs of all time.

I don't personally know many Americans (even Italophiles) who are familiar with Prisencolinensinainciusol but it seems to be the kind of thing that everyone loves when they see it. there was some internet buzz about it a few years ago though i don't know where it started, and i think it became more well-known because of that. Are you Italian, Moka?

Nope, latin. Mexicana to be precise. I first heard the song when I was living in France around 3 years ago at a friend's house (she was french-morrocan) and fell in love with it almost instantly since I had a huge obsession with percussive ridden songs at the time.

I didn't watch the video until a few months ago. The internet buzz makes sense... never asked her where she got it from just seemed to me like the sort of music French like to listen to. Club and bar music over there was very eclectic.

I haven't heard the song elsewhere ever since so it was a nice surprise seeing it is known and loved around ILM.

found this last year in australia. wasn't sure what the album cover was all about. looks like something from Planet of the Apes. watched a few clips on youtube. i guess he was an like the missing link that gets famous or something? (encino man, anyone?) i think everyone in this clip is doing the monkey dance. pretty wacky.
http://dreamchimney.com/tracks/artist_images/24161_image0_20090910_auto.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms1l7wnMYf8

i don't know where it started

I think someone posted a video of it on Youtube, simple as that

I had heard Jeremy Campbell play it out once before that in N.Y. but forgot the name of the track. then all of a sudden everyone was posting the Youtube. and Greg Wilson did an edit of it. it's a great song.

pretty dope

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNhhaG0ySS8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OaGvQpoBnA

cool knees